French horn duo performs Sunday in Estes Park

By Nancy Stevens

Special to the Trail-Gazette

Posted:
03/06/2013 03:20:02 PM MST

Katherine Smith

Artists Selena Adams and Katherine Smith will present history and music of the French horn, from Mozart to jazz, at the Estes Park Winter Festival Music Series on Sunday, March 10, at 2 p.m. at The Stanley Concert Hall. For your convenience, there is additional parking behind the Stanley Hotel. Doors to the concert area open at 1:30 p.m. .Admission is $7 at the door or Save by subscription: $60 for a block of 10 tickets of your concert choice. Children and students are admitted free. This concert is sponsored by Castle Mountain Lodge.

Selena Adams

Are you ready for an historical musical adventure? Come join us, as Selena Adams and Katherine Smith explore the history of the French horn through music written for horn duet. The program will include alphorn tunes of the 16th century, works by Mozart, light operatic duets from the Romantic era, 20th century compositions and delightful jazz waltzes. A most beautiful concert in the acoustically perfect Stanley Hotel Concert Hall.

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Selena Adams was a brass instructor for the 2012 Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps, and was named the 2011 winner of the Colorado MTNA Young Artist State-Level Brass Competition. In the fall of 2008, Adams was a world premiere cast member of the Music Motion Theater production Odyssey, which played in Japan for a four-month tour. She is a former member of the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, the ten-time DCI World Champion Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps and the Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble. In addition to performing with various university ensembles throughout her educational career, Adams has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and numerous other symphony orchestras throughout the United States.

Adams is currently serving as interim graduate instructor of horn at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is pursuing a doctorate degree in horn performance and pedagogy. She previously completed her master's degree in horn performance with Richard Seraphinoff at Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.) and her undergraduate degree in music education at Furman University (Greenville, S.C.).

An active performer, Katherine Marie Smith is on the sublists of the North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Dubuque Symphony and Symphony of the Mountains. While pursuing her undergraduate degree with David Jolley at Mannes College of Music in New York, she performed with the 2007 New York String Orchestra Seminar, the Chelsea Symphony (appearing twice as a soloist), and the New York Wind Symphony, as well as many other ensembles in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fischer Hall.

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